Confederacy is a related term of combining.
As a proper noun confederacy
is (historical) the informal name for the , the collection of american states that seceded from the united states in 1861, and fought against the union in the american civil war.
As a verb combining is
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As a noun combining is
the act by which things are combined or brought together.
confederacy
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Alternative forms
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Noun
(confederacies)
an alliance
combining
English
Verb
(head)
Noun
(
en noun)
The act by which things are combined or brought together.
* (Charles Dickens), The Old Curiosity Shop
- these little combinings together, of friends, for objects in themselves extremely laudable, but which the law terms conspiracies